Is Our National Paradigm true ?comments welcomed

Is Our National Paradigm true ?

   I had several memorable encounters that made me think about our American paradigm. Our national paradigm that we Americans are immune to committing mass crimes against humanity .Our Constitution , free press and excellent judicial and academic institutions make any  cover-up impossible.

   The first was a conversation with a doctor friend about my recent book”JFK: The Magnificent Journey”. My friend was not impressed by my book suggesting that a high level conspiracy involving LBJ, McNamara, Mc George Bundy and a few others were responsible for not only engineering the murder of our 35th president but also launching the Vietnam war on false claims.

    His main point resonated with me. If they were true this would have become public knowledge long time ago.

    The second encounter was similar to the first except this time  the topic was 9/11 and whether it was an inside job.

 I brought up my observations . I had many unanswered questions about the seventh building collapse without getting struck by an airplane, with the news of its collapse being announced by the BBC before it. Furthermore this seemed to be  consistent with engineering insights suggesting that this was a classic controlled demolition. And this fact alone was compelling to argue that 9/11 was an inside job.

   I also brought up the crash of flight 77 into the Pentagon. This didn't seem to be believable because of the obvious lack of visual evidence and the American Pilot Association for 9/11 truth concluding that no plane struck the Pentagon.    This friend was equally unconvinced. His position was almost identical to my doctor friend and the JFK assassination.

“ Interesting thoughts you have but the bottom line is something like this could not happen in America before the press jumping on it” he said. “There are just too many bright people, independent minds and thinkers who would not remain silent”. I yielded.

I registered his message: nothing like this could happen in America.

 My third experience was little more colorful. And also painful.

   It occurred at a bar in Washington DC a few weeks ago.

While dining and watching a hockey game on television this young fellow a government attorney and I got into many discussions about sports, life and politics in the nations capital.

  Time flew by. The game ended with Washington Capitals winning and we were still talking.

  I don't exactly remember how we began talking about the Sandy Hook massacre in Newton Connecticut. I casually mentioned that Prof. James Prof., one of the editors of the controversial and banned book” No one died at Sandy hook” was a close friend of mine whom I respected greatly because of his excellent scientific integrity and intellectual courage to raise important questions about Sentinel events.

   I will spare the details. He labeled my friend Jim a crazy conspiracy theorist and a few other insults. I objected to his language.

    I asked him whether he read the book. The next I know he began yelling how could I even repeat such nonsense about Sandy Hook, to deny THE TRUTH .” Did you watch  television and not  see the grieving parents” he asked.

 I had no chance to respond. Next I found myself on the ground this fellow on top of me punching and kicking me for some 30 seconds before others stopped him. His rage was  striking.

  I will not rule out the influence of alcohol unleashing his anger at me, someone he perceived as either insane or openly offensive to the American paradigm.

   But the more important observation beyond the details of need for anger management was to what degree he was expressing his displeasure and discomfort similarly felt by my good friends .

 The signature trait of all three encounters seemed to be  the sanctity of our American paradigm. If you get close to questioning it, you're entering a combustible zone. Combustible because it is firmly embedded in our minds and souls.

   Even a discussion may unleash negative responses. it is an unspeakable topic.  It becomes a crime to question the paradigm.

   In 150 AD Claudius Ptolemy, a Roman citizen from  Alexandria  Egypt  of Greek heritage, a mathematician and an astronomer proposed that the earth was the center of the universe and the sun, the moon and other planets circled around us. His findings of a mathematical model for the universe published in Almagest became widely accepted as the scientific truth for almost 1500 years until the discoveries by Copernicus and  Kepler.

  It may be important to remember Ptolemy, Copernicus and Kepler when we examine any paradigm. What we may accept as the absolute truth may seem different in the light of new discoveries.

 It seems reasonable to observe that most of us believe and live with the American paradigm.

 We perceive our systems  as not only excellent but also immune to committing mass crimes against humanity in America or on foreign lands.

  Anyone suggesting otherwise would easily be viewed as intellectually or emotionally compromised and possibly be politically motivated to promote an un-American agenda.

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